Sector-specific licensing regimes, concentration / quota allocation, state-controlled entry (energy, telecoms, healthcare, banking).
Trade policy openness — tariffs, non-tariff barriers, FTAs, industrial protection.
Targeted industrial and sectoral subsidies (renewable energy, chip manufacturing, agriculture, green hydrogen, etc).
De jure and de facto independence of the central bank from fiscal authority. Per D.1.5 scope, one of the framework's defensible monetary positions.
Japan formally acceded to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in September 1955, gaining most-favoured-nation access to OECD markets while securing transitional latitude under Article XII to maintain quantitative restrictions on imports for balance-of-payments reasons. Accession anchored the export-led growth strategy by binding tariff schedules abroad while domestic forex controls and MITI licensing continued to manage the import side, a deliberate asymmetry sustained through much of the high-growth era.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.